Re: Recovering select files from a failing hard disk

2007-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: 1. Can I bypass mounting or reading certain sections of the filesystem? Sure, if you boot off some other device or a CD-ROM. 2. Can I force part of a drive to be remapped to other sectors? Yes, but it is likely that modern drives will have

Recovering select files from a failing hard disk

2007-01-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I know similar questions have been asked on the list, but this one has a slight twist to it. I have a failing hard disk that I want to recover only a few directories from, so I was wondering.. 1. Can I bypass mounting or reading